Sanford Pinsker, Shadek Humanities Professor at Franklin and Marshall College, will talk about "Mark Twain and the Jews."  Professor Pinsker is the author of numerous, books, articles, and reviews in the fields of American literature and American-Jewish literature and culture, serves on the editorial boards of a variety of literary reviews and journals, has taught abroad as a Fulbright Senior Lecturer, and is the author of a considerable body of fiction and poetry.  he appears at the Center under the auspices of its Distinguished Academic Visitors series funded by the Mark Twain Foundation.